Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 282 303
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 -104
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 502 569 536
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.03% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.15% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 231 286 355
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,608 £46,025
25th Percentile £55,233 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,500 £81,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,108 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.51% -1.37% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,662 49,693 47,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.06% 89.92% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,549 24,753 35,968
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,565 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +24 446 £70,000 +3.70% 1,426
London +77 246 £80,000 +1.59% 173
UK excluding London -47 199 £62,500 -2.51% 1,382
Work from Home +27 172 £72,500 +11.54% 734
South East -16 61 £61,250 -5.77% 353
North of England +8 47 £75,000 +7.14% 283
Midlands -20 41 £60,500 -3.20% 265
West Midlands -1 27 £57,468 -8.05% 132
Yorkshire +20 25 £80,000 +23.08% 127
North West +6 21 £72,500 +3.57% 141
East of England +28 18 £72,000 -0.69% 216
South West -14 17 £62,500 +13.64% 153
East Midlands -35 12 £80,000 +33.33% 116
Northern Ireland +4 11 £75,000 +26.20% 19
Wales +2 4 £53,750 -16.16% 41
Scotland +5 3 £42,000 -29.33% 69
North East -4 1 - - 15

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.59%) Confluence
2 6 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) CICS
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.40%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.80%) Trello
6 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 15 (2.99%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.80%) Shopify
5 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.94%) SaaS
2 62 (12.35%) Azure
3 52 (10.36%) AWS
4 26 (5.18%) GCP
5 22 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (3.98%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.78%) PaaS
8 14 (2.79%) GitHub
9 13 (2.59%) H2O.ai
9 13 (2.59%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.39%) Pulumi
12 6 (1.20%) Azure AI
12 6 (1.20%) Vertex AI
13 5 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.80%) Collibra
14 4 (0.80%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 4 (0.80%) Snowflake
15 2 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.79%) Broadband
2 9 (1.79%) HTTP
3 8 (1.59%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.59%) WAN
4 7 (1.39%) LAN
5 6 (1.20%) RTP
5 6 (1.20%) Wireless
6 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.80%) 5G
7 4 (0.80%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.40%) ATM
8 2 (0.40%) GPRS
8 2 (0.40%) LTE
8 2 (0.40%) Modbus
8 2 (0.40%) Multicast
8 2 (0.40%) PSTN
8 2 (0.40%) SAN
9 1 (0.20%) 4G
9 1 (0.20%) Intranet
9 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.98%) Metadata
1 20 (3.98%) Relational Database
2 18 (3.59%) Power BI
3 16 (3.19%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.79%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.79%) RDBMS
5 8 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.20%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.00%) Tableau
9 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.60%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.40%) DB2
12 1 (0.20%) Big Data
12 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 34 (6.77%) JIRA
2 7 (1.39%) Jaeger
3 5 (1.00%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.80%) ERwin
5 3 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 192 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 183 (36.45%) Finance
3 109 (21.71%) Marketing
4 96 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (9.36%) Legal
6 45 (8.96%) Banking
7 35 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (6.57%) Financial Institution
8 33 (6.57%) Law
8 33 (6.57%) Retail
9 30 (5.98%) Manufacturing
10 26 (5.18%) Public Sector
11 21 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (3.98%) Electronics
12 20 (3.98%) Telecoms
13 16 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.99%) Digital Economy
15 11 (2.19%) Billing
15 11 (2.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 142 (28.29%) Product Manager
2 69 (13.75%) Lead
3 62 (12.35%) Senior
4 29 (5.78%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.58%) Product Owner
6 22 (4.38%) Product Lead
7 20 (3.98%) Senior Product Manager
8 19 (3.78%) Product Management Director
9 18 (3.59%) Security Engineer
10 17 (3.39%) Digital Product Manager
11 16 (3.19%) Developer
12 15 (2.99%) Change Manager
13 14 (2.79%) Architect
14 12 (2.39%) Technical Support
15 11 (2.19%) Head of Product Management
16 10 (1.99%) Data Manager
16 10 (1.99%) Head of Digital
16 10 (1.99%) Python Developer
17 9 (1.79%) Development Engineer
17 9 (1.79%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.18%) REST
2 17 (3.39%) YAML
3 13 (2.59%) Keras
3 13 (2.59%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.59%) TensorFlow
4 8 (1.59%) Flask
5 7 (1.39%) EDI
5 7 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.39%) FastAPI
5 7 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.20%) .NET
6 6 (1.20%) Node.js
7 4 (0.80%) JSON
7 4 (0.80%) OAuth
7 4 (0.80%) React
7 4 (0.80%) SAML
7 4 (0.80%) SOAP
7 4 (0.80%) XML
8 3 (0.60%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (15.54%) Product Ownership
2 56 (11.16%) Onboarding
3 35 (6.97%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (6.18%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.39%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.79%) Social Media
9 8 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.59%) IoT
9 8 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.19%) Linux
2 7 (1.39%) Unix
3 5 (1.00%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (48.01%) Roadmaps
2 202 (40.24%) Agile
3 130 (25.90%) Product Roadmap
4 121 (24.10%) Product Strategy
5 118 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (19.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 80 (15.94%) User Experience
9 79 (15.74%) AI
10 78 (15.54%) Analytics
11 71 (14.14%) Computer Science
12 69 (13.75%) Mentoring
13 68 (13.55%) Information Security
14 62 (12.35%) Decision-Making
14 62 (12.35%) Product Vision
15 58 (11.55%) B2B
15 58 (11.55%) Coaching
15 58 (11.55%) User Stories
16 56 (11.16%) Business Development
17 55 (10.96%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.17%) Python
2 39 (7.77%) SQL
3 26 (5.18%) Java
4 17 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.19%) Go
6 8 (1.59%) Bash
6 8 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.00%) C#
8 3 (0.60%) C++
9 2 (0.40%) COBOL
9 2 (0.40%) JCL
9 2 (0.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.20%) Groovy
10 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) R
10 1 (0.20%) SHACL
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (24.10%) Degree
2 56 (11.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (10.76%) Master's Degree
4 34 (6.77%) Security Cleared
5 22 (4.38%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.99%) MBA
7 9 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.59%) PMP
9 5 (1.00%) CSPO
10 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.80%) CISM
10 4 (0.80%) CISSP
10 4 (0.80%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.60%) CITP
11 3 (0.60%) HNC
11 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.40%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.37%) QA
2 27 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.18%) NIST
4 20 (3.98%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.59%) NCSC
6 17 (3.39%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.20%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.00%) GDPR
8 5 (1.00%) IFRS
8 5 (1.00%) PMO
8 5 (1.00%) SLA
9 4 (0.80%) SEPA
10 3 (0.60%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.40%) COREP
11 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.40%) FINREP
11 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 16 (3.19%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.00%) vSphere
3 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.99%) Terraform
3 7 (1.39%) Ansible
3 7 (1.39%) Argo
3 7 (1.39%) Kustomize
3 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.40%) WSUS
6 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 53 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.37%) Google
3 20 (3.98%) Salesforce
4 18 (3.59%) Databricks
5 15 (2.99%) Dell
6 14 (2.79%) SAP
7 13 (2.59%) NVIDIA
8 12 (2.39%) Foundry
9 6 (1.20%) Zoho
10 5 (1.00%) Adobe
10 5 (1.00%) Oracle
10 5 (1.00%) VMware
11 4 (0.80%) Sage
11 4 (0.80%) YouTube
12 3 (0.60%) Apple
12 3 (0.60%) Cisco
12 3 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.60%) Tenable
13 2 (0.40%) HP
13 2 (0.40%) Juniper